Hear from an expert on sensory experiences, behavior management and programming environment set up about ways to improve your room setups to create a more welcoming, engaging, and inclusive environment, and how to relate to either one over-excited or upset child or a room full of them -- without completely interrupting your regularly scheduled programming.

Learning Outcomes

By attending this webinar, participants will:

Learn to look at your existing spaces in a new way, to set up storytime and programming spaces to create welcoming and engaging environments for all participants -- grownups and their children -- with no money required.

Learn how to respond to children’s behavior individually, even in a group setting, through the use of sensory materials.

Learn how to use songs, books, activities and your body to change the mood of your program, and regulate the different behaviors you encounter in your programming.

Who Should Attend

The primary audience will be children’s librarians and library staff in public libraries who are serving youth ages 0-6. We believe that anyone interested in working with young children, will find this webinar series beneficial. Practitioners will be able to learn new information and build upon what they already know. In addition, youth services managers, branch managers, and library directors who supervise librarians working with ages 0-5 will find this webinar valuable.

How to Register

If you are an ALSC member you will need your ALA login information to access the archived webinar; if you click on this link and receive a page error message, please ignore it and proceed to the login link in the top right corner of the page. If you are an ALSC member and you are having problems logging into the ALSC website please contact Kristen Figliulo.

If you are not an ALSC member, please use the links below to purchase the webinar archive through the ALA Store: